Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

sailim, I love that you are passionate enough to start threads, but you may want to participate in some threads that have already been started as well. There are a lot of good conversations going already. Often times when you start a thread there has already been a similar conversation only 2 or 3 pages away that you could join in on, rather than starting a new thread. Use your search function. Things get very cluttered and tough to follow if there are too many new threads started. I'm not being rude here, just observant, and it's just my opinion.

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

Originally Posted by mrclmind

sailim, I love that you are passionate enough to start threads, but you may want to participate in some threads that have already been started as well. There are a lot of good conversations going already. Often times when you start a thread there has already been a similar conversation only 2 or 3 pages away that you could join in on, rather than starting a new thread. Use your search function. Things get very cluttered and tough to follow if there are too many new threads started. I'm not being rude here, just observant, and it's just my opinion.

+1 and thanks with a cherry on top.

The reviews which are there to be read, are a great source of info. Use them

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

It has a strange harsh cheap-cedar quality about it...there's some strange wood note being used in its composition. It smells ok at best, but has no quality vanilla orchid flower/bourbon extract that I can detect. As I state in my review, Guerlain tried to recreate the smell of freshly cut open vanilla pods rather than the extract, but the end result doesn't smell good to my nose.

Try Diptyque's Eau Duelle for a better take on the recreation of the raw vanilla pod smell.

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

It's not only one of the best vanilla fragrances, it's one of the finest renditions of pipe tobacco around. Close to perfection.

Rare, vintage, and niche off-site sales.Big list of niche splits.For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. - Vladimir Nabokov

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

I was in the skies when I fist sniffed it back in 2007, but it's true that when the cedarwood oil meets vanilla and incense, it produces during the first hour a discordant sourness somewhat reminiscent of burned balsamic vinegar.

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

Originally Posted by zztopp

It has a strange harsh cheap-cedar quality about it...there's some strange wood note being used in its composition. It smells ok at best, but has no quality vanilla orchid flower/bourbon extract that I can detect. As I state in my review, Guerlain tried to recreate the smell of freshly cut open vanilla pods rather than the extract, but the end result doesn't smell good to my nose.

Try Diptyque's Eau Duelle for a better take on the recreation of the raw vanilla pod smell.

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

Originally Posted by zztopp

It has a strange harsh cheap-cedar quality about it...there's some strange wood note being used in its composition. It smells ok at best, but has no quality vanilla orchid flower/bourbon extract that I can detect. As I state in my review, Guerlain tried to recreate the smell of freshly cut open vanilla pods rather than the extract, but the end result doesn't smell good to my nose.

Try Diptyque's Eau Duelle for a better take on the recreation of the raw vanilla pod smell.

This is all true. I would like to add Luca Turins review since it mirrors yours and mine.

"Anyone who has bought vanilla in pods knows they do not smell very good up close, with a dissonant fruity, rum-like notes that make you feel like skipping lunch. Guerlain obligingly magnifies all the negative traits of vanilla in this pointless, loud, and misconceived confection. LT"

Re: Spiritueuse Double Vanille

Originally Posted by thebeck

This is all true. I would like to add Luca Turins review since it mirrors yours and mine.

"Anyone who has bought vanilla in pods knows they do not smell very good up close, with a dissonant fruity, rum-like notes that make you feel like skipping lunch. Guerlain obligingly magnifies all the negative traits of vanilla in this pointless, loud, and misconceived confection. LT"